I am in the middle of dealing with my VV problems right now. I am deciding between EVLT and sclerotherapy for my biggies, and doing sclerotherapy on the ones that are merely ugly and not painful.

EVLT is done by interventional radiologists and by various "vein specialists". Vascular surgeons tend to do the stripping which I did have done about 5 years ago for a giant honker of a vein. That I do NOT recommend to anyone. My surgeon required me to have general anesthesia which really sucked.

I am actually looking forward to sclerotherapy (injection) or laser and being done with the throbbing in my thighs. I hate that incessant throbbing! Nowadays stripping is done very rarely and if your doc suggests it, go see an interventional radiologist!